 SD 8299 (US pressing) |
James Luther Dickinson Dixie Fried |
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SD 8299 (US pressing) |
James Luther Dickinson Dixie Fried |
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Says List member Stephane Rebeschini :
The album is excellent, but Ry Cooder is not credited and there's nothing characteristic to be heard. Maybe he is "The Okefenokee Kid", but that's just a special thanks. Who knows ?
The following message has been received from Jens Erler :
I was looking for information on James Luther Dickinson's "Dixie Fried" album and found your site. Most likely the Okefenokee Kid listed is Stanley Booth, the Memphis based writer. He is the author of "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones" and "Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South". He grew up in the Okefenokee area. Dickinson and Booth seem to be friends since the early sixties. Dickinson is frequently mentioned in Booth's articles -- and Booth introduced Dickinson to the Rolling Stones.
Similarly a message from Jack Stevenson :
Ry Cooder was fortunate to spend some quality time with folks like Jim Dickinson, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, Wayne Perkins, Brenda Patterson, Sleepy John Estes and so forth back in the early 70s, but he was NOT the Okeefenokee Kid....
Back when I lived in Memphis, I had the good fortune to hear Stanley Booth read from his newly published Rolling Stones memoir (originally titled "Dance With the Devil"). I suspected that he was the "Okeefenokee Kid" who had written a moving tribute to guitarist Charlie Freeman in the the early 70s for Rolling Stone, but I couldn't stick around to ask him--there were several hundred admirers in the store. I bought a book and left it for him to sign along with a note. He inscribed my book:
Hope this puts that rumor to rest.....
However, Ry did play on a compilation album that Dickinson produced circa 1976 entitled "Beale Street Saturday Night" featuring Sleepy John, Furry Lewis, Mud Boy and many other Memphis legends. Stanley Booth wrote the liner notes. This record is worth tracking down...good luck!!
Jack Stevenson
Special Thanks to Charlie Brown, Bob the Fox, Rock & Roll Randall, Deive-In Danny, James Parks, Eric Clapton, Dan Penn, Herbie O'Meil, The Okefenokee Kid, Saul Betz, Bill Newport, John Fry, Jerry Wexler, Sam Phillips
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